It is what you think it is! A jet engine mounted to the front of a truck. They call it the "Gorinich", a fire-breathing dragon. This can't be an economical or environmentally-friendly way to get the ice off runways, but they say it works really well. I guess! I wish we had pics of it in operation.

Below is the tanker that carries enough fuel to get you partway across the world... or to clean your driveway in 2 seconds.

Jerry: Hi do there, Uncle Versie.
Uncle: Hey, Jerry.
Jerry: I see ya got a piece of log chain stuck under ya truck a-draggin' on the ground.
Uncle: Yeah, I put it under there.
Jerry: What for?
Uncle: I don't rightly know, but, Phillips 66 does it, and they makin' millions.

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The winter of 1962-63 was not only severe but prolonged, resulting in a great disruption of rail, road and air traffic throughout the country.
At Bedford, airfield personnel were employed in snow clearance, and several snow-clearing test vehicles were devised.
'Ice Breaker Mk 1', seen clearing the runways on 18th February 1963, was a tailless de Havilland Venom normally used by apprentices.
In this role it was 'piloted'by Bill Ford-Hutchinson, the senior air traffic control officer.

From 'A short illustrated history of the Royal Aerospace Establishment Bedford'.

The scanned image isn't perfect as I didn't want to flatten the book any further.

To prove that Philadelphia is battle-ready for a massive snowfall, Knueppel pointed to three of SEPTA's secret weapons: a jet engine that attaches to a rail vehicle and aggressively blows away snow; a large snow-thrower the size of a front of a train; and rotating brooms affixed to trolleys to sweep away any accumulation.